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The Anomaly

A Time-Phase Slip

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Pub Date Aug 15 2026 | Archive Date Oct 1 2026


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Description

Four lives. Three centuries. Four deaths.

"Reminded of Alfred Bester and Fritz Leiber, with heroic yet pragmatic characters worthy of Heinlein. This may be his best yet." Alastair Mayer, Author of The T-Space Series

A Waystation temporal agent's recall beacon fails. He doesn't die—he propagates, his consciousness scattering forward through time, embedding in successive human hosts, each unaware of what they carry.

Jax Harlan dies in vacuum in the asteroid belt, never understanding his visions. Mira Thorne recognizes a stranger's death as her own on a research sub beneath Europa's ice. Kai Okafor walks into lethal electromagnetic fire to save a million colonists on Proxima b. On a starship in deep interstellar space, Asha Dey remembers all three lives—and chooses to end the chain on her own terms.

Meanwhile, Waystation fractures: was the anomaly a malfunction to be corrected, or a series of people with rights?

Hard science fiction becoming something harder: a meditation on what it costs to persist.

Four lives. Three centuries. Four deaths.

"Reminded of Alfred Bester and Fritz Leiber, with heroic yet pragmatic characters worthy of Heinlein. This may be his best yet." Alastair Mayer, Author of The...


Advance Praise

Imagine classic science fiction with current-day, cutting-edge science. Sounds good, right? Well, you don’t have to imagine, this is what Robert G. Williscroft’s latest, The Anomaly, provides. An epic spanning over 300 years and a dozen light years, (with interludes outside of time and space altogether), this is an intriguing mix of action/adventure and metaphysics. I found myself reminded of Alfred Bester and Fritz Leiber, with heroic yet pragmatic characters worthy of Heinlein. It’s a little different from Williscroft’s usual fare but every bit as good, if not better. This may be his best yet. —Alastair Mayer, Author of The T-Space Series

When does a space yarn stretching centuries into the future become something extraordinary? When time itself becomes a variable, not a constraint. Jealously guarded. Bidirectional. A stream with eddies that cannot be resisted. When engineering precision reaches limits that only human sacrifice can exceed. Such is the newest novel from Robert G. Williscroft. And arguably, his greatest. I have followed Williscroft since his novel Operation Ivy Bells, a book that pushed the limits of legality in writing. The Anomaly pushes other limits, exposing the reader to concepts beyond science, as we currently know it. Williscroft’s engineering and scientific acumen is well earned, but his venture into the other is spell binding. The Anomaly will captivate you as you ponder what it is, and why it has the power to change reality itself. The Anomaly is a Masterclass in Space Suspense. — John R. Clarke, Ph.D., Author of The Jason Parker Trilogy

A fantastic premise told with solid science that gives us faster-than-light access to a fascinating future. A belter badlands. A submarine under miles of ice and seawater...on Europa. FTL exploration. Robert Williscroft takes us to exotic locations and challenges us to imagine the possibilities with four stories and a common thread that is the stuff heroes are made of. —Trenton Bennett, Voice Actor Narrator of all Robert G. Williscroft’s books

Robert G. Williscroft science fiction demonstrates his mastery of technology and engineering. In The Anomaly, he brings something even more important, his realization that human decisions, existential consciousness, and intuition are more important than data. This is a novel of courage, the courage to believe that there is purpose in the very threads of existence. —Kenneth Weene, Ph.D. Novelist, Playwright, Poet

Imagine classic science fiction with current-day, cutting-edge science. Sounds good, right? Well, you don’t have to imagine, this is what Robert G. Williscroft’s latest, The Anomaly, provides. An...


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ISBN 9781968367596
PRICE $4.99 (USD)
PAGES 412

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